Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-15
NEWS AND NOTES.

PATHS hotel bill in New York is sIIC
day.
There are $4,000, 900 worth of 8 PEI
cent bonds subject to call.
Mr.. Beecher used to name his fine cattle
after different members of his family ant
favorite flowers.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington
philanthropist, pays taxes on S9,1o 600 worth o.
property, It is said.
According to tax records, President
| Cleveland is assessed for $3.50 worth Of proper
ty in Washington.
The Dow high license law in Ohio has
} closed forty eight saloons In Columbus, 200 in
/ Toledo and 800 in Cleveland.
| The superintendent of the New York
! state Fish Hatchery has Just turned loose in
The various small streams OF the state 4U2, 00C
young trout
| There are 5000 churches in the world
! that use unfermented wine n the celebration
| OF the Lords Supper, and Surgeons Taberna-
| Gle IN London Is one of them.
a dentist of patriotic disposition in q
small town In Germany announced through
advertisement in the local press that on the
occasion of tbe Emperor William's birthday he
would extract teeth and supply false ones
wi bout any charge whatever.
The oldest man now in active service
in the New York fire department is Foreman
William Landers of Engine Company 10 AZ In
the annexed district. He is sixty four wears of
age, and was forty two when he entered the
service of the department. record of twenty
years in the old volunteer companies gave him
his appointment.
Under an old law Q7O4) the Mayor OF
Philadelphia wa required "OnCe every month
to Inspect the bread bakers, and to seize and
destroy all the breat found deficient in weight"
Another singular fact was that tn Mayor was
elected by vote of the AID rmen and mem
bers of The Council, and ain case of misconduct
could be removed by the Recorder, five Alder
men and nine members of the Council consent
ing to it
The suit recently entered in England by
Miss Allan of Montreal, Of one of the best fami-
lies In tn 1t city, against his ROYAL Hignness the
Prince of al s, for the recovery of S25 900 due
on the contract ade and entered into on ac-
count OF the seduction of the plaintiff by the
defendant IN 1861 while he was in this country
has been broughtto a C Ose by an early settle
ment before trial The Ieen's solicitors were
last week instructed to paw tn the counsel for
the plaintiff the SUN Of E2OOO as well as all
costs so far incurred. The bIl amounts in all
Inc uding the damages. to over SlI 600. 1t is |
unde stood that this sum : been al cepted BY
the plaintiff. and that the ton has been dis
missed on the payment of the above sum.
The correspondents are telling of a
lady clerk in the pa ent Office whom everybody
dec ares to closely re emble the Presidents
Wife she was In down town store short time
ago, where she accidentally encountered Nrs.
Folsom The latter is said to have started as
though very much su prised and inquired of
one of the clerks: "WhO is that young lady |
who looks so much like my daughter, Mrs. |
Clevelqnd?" Since it has got Out that the pat |
ent Office lacy so much res mbles the Presi- |
denSs wi G the ON in which she is plOyed |
is one of the most attractive IN the whole bu- !
reau. People go out of their waf in order to |
make 1t convenient to call there on some pre- !
text or other, and when she appears IN the cor J
ridor she Is at once the cynOsure of every eye. !
The body Of Mrs. ROsanna Dennis, wife |
of Harlan Dennis, who died Decem Der 49, lS7O, |
u as taken up at Tifin, ohio, he other day for |
removal to another cemetery. When the body |
was finally eXhumed it was found in a complete |
state of petridcdtiOn, with one exception of the |
feet. The deceased had been clothed in a black !
silk Dress which was still In a good state of |
preservation. The cOffA, however, was almost |
entirely decayed. The deceased was 8 large |
woman, and the full Outl mes of the body had |
been preserved. so heavy had 1t become that |
1t took the united efforts of ten men to remove |
1t from It's resting place. While this was being
accom- plished a small piece was unavOidably |
Clipped off the body, which Is in the possession
Of undertaken hishler. 1t has all the appear
ance of hard, hinty lime. Mrs Dennis died of |
drOpsy, ano 1t is question whether the I'M
natural accumulation of water in the system
before death would be conducive to so remark
abe change.